The Centre for Public Integrity, December 1, 2021, Six Lessons From The Paycheck Protection Program
The pandemic aid for small businesses exposed many of the cracks in an unequal system.
To find out how well the PPP was reaching communities of color compared with largely white areas, journalists and academics had to sue the SBA. And even then, the SBA didn’t release data about the applicants turned down, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition notes.
